Nourishing Women Podcast

If you are struggling with hypothalamic amenorrhea, you may know the basics of recovery are to eat more and exercise less. But what does it mean to eat more? It’s interesting, the two most demonized macronutrients, carbohydrates and fat, will be the two most important nutrients to consider when it comes to getting your period back.   In this episode, I’ll help you understand why carbohydrates are essential to your reproductive health and your period resuming. One of my favorite things that carbohydrates do for our hormones is stimulate our glucose sensing neurons in our ovaries. Eating enough overall and eating sufficient carbohydrates tells these neurons to communicate with hormones, which are also involved in turning on GnRH secretion to stimulate the specific reproductive hormones involved in your menstrual cycle. But this is just touching the surface on the amazing things carbohydrates do for our bodies and how they help us in amenorrhea recovery!   Listen to learn more and if this episode was supportive,